globemed at duke university annual report 2011-2012
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GLOBEMED AT DUKE UNIVERSITY
students and communities improving health
around the world
2011-2012 Annual Report
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GlobeMed is a network of university students that partner with grassroots organizations around the world to improve the health of people living in poverty
AMHERST COLLEGE Pastoral de La Salud
San Salvador, El Salvador
FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY
ARM Orissa, India
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY Medical AIDS Outreach Montgomery, Alabama
UNC-CHAPEL HILL Health Alert Uganda
Gulu, Uganda
BETHEL UNIVERSITY Rural Economic
Development Association Svay Rieng, Cambodia
GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
RVCP, Butare, Rwanda Community of Hope
Washington, D.C.
RHODES COLLEGE A Ministry of Sharing
Health and Hope Managua, Nicaragua
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PEDA
Vientiane, Laos
BOSTON COLLEGE CCC-UNSCH
Ayacucho, Peru
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
Primeros Pasos Quetzaltenango, Guatemala
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY Cooperation for Social
Services and Development Phnom Penh, Cambodia
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
Kallpa Iquitos Iquitos, Peru
BROWN UNIVERSITY Ungano Tena
Nairobi, Kenya
INDIANA UNIVERSITY CEMOPLAF Cajabamba
Cajabamba, Ecuador
TRUMAN STATE UNIVERSITY
Maison de Naissance Torbeck, Haiti
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
CareNet Ghana Hohoe, Ghana
BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY KIHEFO
Kabale, Uganda
LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY Health Development
Initiative Kigali, Rwanda
TUFTS UNIVERSITY Nyaya Health
Achham, Nepal
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
Clinica Ana Manganaro Guarjila, El Salvador
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY GWED-G
Gulu, Uganda
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO
Jambi Huasi Otovalo, Ecuador
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ASPAT
Lima, Peru
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA Build Your Future Today
Center Siem Reap, Cambodia
CORNELL UNIVERSITY CEPAIPA
Guayaquil, Ecuador
MIT Women Mobilizing for
Development Bokeo, Laos
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI
Social Action for Women Mae Sot, Thailand
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
WDA Phnom Penh, Cambodia
CU-BOULDER HHC, Jawalakhel, Nepal
Courage Is Change Denver, Colorado
MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE Gardens for Health
International Gasabo, Rwanda
UCLA Nwoya Youth Center
Anaka, Uganda
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON
COWS Kampong Thom, Cambodia
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE Kachin Women’s
Association Thailand Chiang Mai, Thailand
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
Kitovu Mobile AIDS Organization
Masaka, Uganda
UNIVERSITY OF DENVER Buddhism and Society
Development Association Kampong Cham, Cambodia
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY Dios es Amor
Lima, Peru
DEPAUL UNIVERSITY ASOSAP
Alta Verapaz, Guatemala
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY HOPE Center
Ho, Ghana
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Tiyatien Health Zwedru, Liberia Joy-Southfield
Detroit, Michigan
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS
UDHA Iganga, Uganda
DUKE UNIVERSITY Salud Sin Límites Siuna, Nicaragua
OBERLIN COLLEGE Center for Community
Health Promotion Hanoi, Vietnam
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-KANSAS CITY
KCRC Bushenyi District, Uganda
WHITMAN COLLEGE Burmese Women’s Union
Chiang Mai, Thailand
EMORY UNIVERSITY MAP Foundation
Chiang Mai, Thailand
PENN STATE UNIVERSITY ACUDESBAL
Chiapas, Mexico
GlobeMed aims to strengthen the movement for global health equity by empowering students and communities to
work together to improve the health of people living in poverty around the world.
We believe every human life has equal worth and every person deserves the chance to thrive. This
belief has drawn together our network of students, communities, and supporters from all walks of life and from every corner of the world. Health for all is within our grasp, but we can only
achieve it by working together.
“ ”OUR MISSION
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PRESIDENTS’ MESSAGE
IN THIS REPORT: !1 MISSION STATEMENT
2 2011 – 2012 AT A GLANCE
3 ABOUT US
4 OUR PARTNER
5 OUR PROJECT
6 CAMPAIGNS
7 GLOBALHEALTHU
8 COMMUNITY BUILDING 9 GRASSROOTS ON-SITE
WORK INTERNSHIP
10 WORLD DAY OF SOCIAL JUSTICE
11 GLOBEMED GLOBAL HEALTH SUMMIT
12 OUR FUTURE
13 FINANCES
14 STAY CONNECTED
15 THANK YOU
Dear friends of GlobeMed, In the past year GlobeMed at Duke has evolved. We have grown leaps and bounds. We have expanded from a small, relatively unknown group on campus to a well-recognized brand, one that people know and respect. We have grown in numbers and in level of commitment. We have raised over $10,000 to help build a shelter for victims of domestic violence in our partner community in Siuna, Nicaragua. Our second year has been one of growth, expansion and deepening of our roots. We have created a more meaningful relationship with our partner and increased our impact on campus. But the growth has not only been external, but internal as well. We have come together as a group of students, all passionate about global health, but also as a group of friends working towards a common goal: global health equity. Through our fall retreat and community building brunches, dinners and t-shirt making we have bonded as a group. At the end of our second year, we are now poised to make a large impact- in our partner community and on Duke’s campus. As we continue to work towards building a shelter for victims of domestic violence and spreading awareness of global health equity, GlobeMed at Duke has high hopes for the coming year. In solidarity, Allison Kratka and April Harrison 2011-2012 Co-Presidents
GlobeMed at Duke University
since our founding in , our chapter
has grown from to members.
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GlobeMed at Duke University
september 2010
GlobeMed at Duke was founded in September, 2010; in that same month, we connected with our partner, Salud Sin Limites in Siuna, Nicaragua. Our E Board didn’t assimilate until early October, but when the ten energetic and committed students came together we knew that we were off to a good start. In our first year, GlobeMed at Duke expanded from 10 to 20 members, hosted 4 public events, and raised $4,502. In our second year, we expanded to 35 amazing members, hosted 8 public events and exceeded our fundraising goal of $7000 to raise a total of $10,411.
ABOUT US
OUR PARTNER Salud Sin Limites (Health Unlimited)
KEY FACT: Almost the entire population of North Atlantic Autonomous Region lives in conditions defined as extreme poverty by the UN.
ABOUT SALUD SIN LIMITES FOUNDED IN 1993
According to their mission statement, the London-based organization Health Poverty Action works with communities, service providers, policy-makers, and donors in difficult areas in Africa, Asia, and Latin America to ensure access to healthcare for people marginalized by conflict, instability, or discrimination. Since it arrived in Siuna, Nicaragua in 1993, Salud Sin Limites (as it is known there) has worked on various projects regarding the major local issues of sanitation, water quality, malnutrition, and maternal mortality and morbidity. Today their focus is mainly on youth and women, working to prevent unsafe sex, drug abuse, and domestic violence. Salud Sin Limites connected with GlobeMed at Duke in the fall of 2010 to work together on a community garden project in a small village called Las Quebradas.
WORKS IN SIUNA, NICARAGUA POPULATION: 73,730
Salud Sin Limites operates in Siuna, Nicaragua, which is part of the North Atlantic Autonomous Region (la RAAN). The entire region is defined as living in extreme poverty, characterized by overpopulation in houses, inadequate housing, poor water quality, low levels of education, and economic dependence. Because of the region’s political and economic status, it is mostly neglected by the central government in terms of public needs—of the 132 small communities surrounding Siuna, there are only 14 health centers, typically only one nurse per center, and one ambulance (if you don’t count Juan and the SSL truck).
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KEY FACT: Fruits and vegetables are only available in the "urban zones" of La RAAN--in villages like Las Quebradas, they are a luxury.
&OUR PROJECT GlobeMed at Duke University
Why capacity building? Domestic violence is a very prevalent issue in Nicaragua. Currently in Siuna there is a law that law enforcement must protect a shelter for victims of domestic violence, but no such shelter exists. By building a shelter, victims who come from the surrounding region will have a place to stay while they report the violence in their household. This will hopefully increase the rate of reporting of the crimes and help women remove themselves and their children from violent situations. We aim to build a shelter for victims of
domestic violence in Siuna and the surrounding region."
Our project is to construct a shelter for victims of domestic violence in coordination with the Women’s Commission of
Siuna. 70.9% of the population in Siuna live in extreme poverty. According to Amnesty International, Nicaragua has
the highest rates of domestic violence and cases of rape in Central America, which has called attention to the fight
against gender-based violence.
The project will improve the quality of attention and sensitize the population so that justice will be provided for the victims of sexual and intrafamiliar violence in Siuna and
the surrounding communities. It will promote the prevention of gender-based violence at the public level through murals
and will build technological capacity for organizations involved in the project so that they may better serve the
beneficiaries and document the results of the project.
$40,000 TO FUND THE
BUILDING OF THE SHELTER FOR
VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC
VIOLENCE IN THE COMMUNITY
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Salud Sin Limites
CAMPAIGNS EVENT TITLE
EVENT DESCRIPTION
MONEY RAISED
Soccer for a Safer Siuna
A benefit 5-on-5 soccer tournament featuring food and a prize for the winning team.
$217
Get Cozy for a Cause A fall-themed event with A Capella music, spoken word poetry, acoustic guitar and delicious catering featuring DaisyCakes cupcakes, hot chocolate, egg nog and hot cider.
$430.24
GROW Panel/ GROW Week
GlobeMed members from Duke and UNC participated in a joint panel to describe their summer GROW trip experiences. We also tabled for the week before to raise funds and awareness about the panel
$20
GlobeMed Hosts Shooters (x2)
We hosted a local bar night to raise money for our partner $2016.76
Individual Giving Campaign
We raised funds for our partner by asking family members and friends for donations through razoo
$7510
Selling handmade GlobeMed t-shirts at Summit
Our chapter made GlobeMed t-shirts and sold them to members of other chapters at the national summit in Evanston in April
$220
Campaigns are on-campus events and initiatives that raise funds for GlobeMed partner organizations' grassroots projects abroad.
Since 2010, GlobeMed at Duke has raised close to $15,000 to support Salud sin Limites in Siuna, Nicaragua.
Total funds raised for Salud sin Limites in 2011-2012:
$10,411
CAMPAIGNS Get Cozy for a Cause November 10, 2011 This event was held at the Duke University Mary Lou Williams Center and featured performances by student groups including Deja Blue, Out of the Blue, Spoken Verb, and the Acoustic Band. With funding from the Duke Student Organization Finance Committee (SOFC), GlobeMed raised funds through the sale of gourmet Daisy Cakes cupcakes, warm beverages such as cider and hot chocolate, homemade caramel apples, handmade knitted hats and GlobeMed t-shirts.
Soccer for a Safer Siuna February 8, 2012 "Fútbol," or "soccer" in English, is a well-loved game in Latin America. We celebrated our partner community's culture on Central Campus by hosting an informal soccer tournament for students and faculty. Around 40 soccer players duked it out in teams of 5 to win a generously donated prize of $150 in Duke Stores merchandise. The second place team won Locopops vouchers. The event featured food and drinks for the athletes, funded by Duke SOFC.
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE YEAR
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GlobalhealthU was a significant portion of our weekly meetings and was instrumental in teaching chapter members about the global health problems that we are working to fight. We especially enjoyed the debate track, because it taught us that there are many different answers to the question of how to get countries out of poverty, but none that are undeniably correct.
globalhealthU globalhealthU is GlobeMed’s signature
year-long global health curriculum. This student-designed and driven program equips students with the
critical thinking skills that will inform a life of leadership for global health.
2011-2012 CURRICULUM
ORIENTATION Chapter members were
equipped with a thorough understanding of the values of
GlobeMed and explored their personal values.
POVERTY AND HEALTH Chapters conceptualized
poverty and sought to explore the connections between
global health and poverty.
THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS
We considered the views of six developmental economists
to explored the root causes and paths out of poverty.
INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION
Chapters conducted an in-depth investigation on a topic
of interest.
STUDENTS’ ROLE Following a critical discussion
of our role in perpetuating poverty, we sought to
understand how we can be effective advocates.
REFLECTION Chapters reflected on the year
behind them both as individuals and in the context
of their chapter.
Service Under Scrutiny: Community, Health, Action November 30, 2011
This was a panel event hosted by ourselves and GlobeMed at UNC. One speaker, Dr. Jaime Bayona was the Co-founder and Director of the Peruvian branch of Partners in Health, and the principal investigator in Peru for numerous NIH-funded research projects. We also spoke with Dr. Heather Crouse, an Associate Professor at the Baylor College of Medicine. Her research interests include evidence-based interventions to support acute care throughout Africa, the Dominican Republic, and Guatemala.
globalhealthU ON-CAMPUS EVENTS
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TOTAL # OF CHAPTER MEMBERS: # OF COMMUNITY BUILDING EVENTS: This year community building was one of our chapter’s strong points. We held 15 events, ranging from pizza at staff meetings, dinners and brunches with exec and staff, t-shirt and craft-making parties for small business, cookie-baking, our fall retreat and volunteering at a women’s shelter in Durham. Our community building events brought our chapter together as a group and created an atmosphere of friendship and solidarity. Working together as a group outside of campaigns and ghU allowed friendships to form and increased our efficiency as a chapter.
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Through service and team-building events, community and camaraderie is fostered around global health and social justice within GlobeMed chapters, the
GlobeMed network and surrounding communities.
COMMUNITY BUILDING
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WORLD DAY OF SOCIAL JUSTICE
GLOBEMED AT DUKE UNIVERSITY joined 45 other GlobeMed chapters across the nation in a network-wide commemoration of the 4th Annual World Day of Social Justice during the week of February 20, 2012, by asking professors to dedicate five minutes of class time to a discussion on how poverty and social justice relates to their field of study. GLOBEMED TEACH-IN HIGHLIGHTS: Professor Kathleen Millar (Writing 20: Writing Poverty) spoke about her fieldwork as a cultural anthropologist, observing and studying catadores, workers who collect and sell materials from a garbage dump outside of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She spoke to our class on February 20th. Dr. Millar's department is the Thompson Writing Program. MORE WDSJ ACTION ----------------------------------- PLAZA TABLING: We tabled on the plaza to raise awareness about WDSJ and sold t-shirts to create a visual image representing the event. We also sold homemade cookies packaged with health-related factoids. WHAT DOES SOCIAL JUSTICE MEAN TO YOU?: We had people answer this question in hopes of sparking discussions surrounding the true meaning of social justice. The term is not often used on Duke's campus so we wanted people to truly think about what it meant.
“INJUSTICE anywhere is a THREAT to JUSTICE everywhere.”
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed February 20th as World Day of Social Justice in 2007. Observation of WDSJ supports efforts of the
international community in poverty eradication, the promotion of full employment and decent work, gender equity and access to social well-
being and justice for all.
Number of professors who participated in the WDSJ Teach-In:
02 Participating Departments:
Global Health
Cultural Anthropology
GlobeMed at Duke University tabled on a plaza on campus to raise awareness about WDSJ in hopes of getting their campus talking about what social justice means to them.
View more photos and quotes at www.globemedwdsj.tumblr.com
WORLD DAY OF SOCIAL JUSTICE
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WDSJ Action
After an intense three days of listening, discussing, and thinking at the annual GlobeMed Summit, I gained a deeper understanding of the meaning of partnership and the road to achieving it. The Summit gave me the opportunity and the intellectual resources to assess the relationship between GlobeMed at Duke and our partner, Salud sin Limites, so that our chapter can work to improve the partnership. I was most inspired at the Summit by the GlobeMed network of young, passionate minds from all over the country who fuel this movement for social justice through health. "
-- Emily Du, c/o 2015
2012 DELEGATES: April Harrison, Allison Kratka, Emily Du
The annual GlobeMed Global Health Summit brings together university students from across the nation for three days of intensive lectures and
workshops with representatives from grassroots global health organizations and a range of experts.
2012 GLOBAL HEALTH SUMMIT
OUR FUTURE
We are so excited for the future of GlobeMed at Duke. Throughout the summer of 2012, we will be reflecting on our past year in GlobeMed, and thinking about how we will continue to work with Salud sin Limites in the coming years. For the 2012-2013 year, we anticipate an increased fundraising goal, more campaign events, and greater staff member participation. As a chapter, we are so thankful for support from our campus, the local Durham community, and our partner community of Las Quebradas. Please take a moment to learn more and contribute to our project through this site: http://www.razoo.com/story/Globe-Med-At-Duke.
“GlobeMed at Duke has meant so much more to me than just another student group,
another on-campus obligation--it's a circle of incredible friends that I love and trust, that
I looked forward to seeing every week, and that I'll miss deeply in the years that come. It hurts to leave GlobeMed, as my friends and as my cause, but I know that the passions that brought us together will continue to
burn in the hearts and minds of those who now take up the torch. I can't wait to see
where it takes them into 2013!” -- April Harrison, c/o 2012
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CAMPAIGN DONATIONS! OPERATIONS! TOTAL REVENUE!
Revenue!
Events ! $2,901! $2,901!
Individual Giving! $7,510! $7,510!
University Funding! $729.30! $729.30!
SUBTOTAL! $10,411! $729.30! $11,140.30!
CAMPAIGN DONATIONS!
OPERATIONS & GRANTS! TOTAL!
Current Finances!
Cash Reserves! $10,411! $10,411!
EXISTING BALANCE! $10,411! $10,411!
In 2011 – 2012, GlobeMed at Duke University raised $10,411 for Salud Sin Limites to support
projects in Siuna, Nicaragua.
FINANCES
KEEP IN TOUCH
WANT TO REACH US IN 2012-2013?
CONTACT: Eliza Gentzler E-MAIL: [email protected]
Find our chapter on www.razoo.com/story/Globe-Med- At-Duke and make a donation to support our partner and project today.
Check out our photos on globemed.smugmug.com/GlobeMed-at-Duke
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Follow our blog and chime in on the discussion. globemedduke.blogspot.com
Follow us on twitter at twitter.com/#!/GlobeMedatDuke
Read more about our partner and project, and the GlobeMed network. globemed.org/duke
EXECUTIVE BOARD
A sincere thanks to the following advocates, mentors, donors, and colleagues for making our 2011 – 2012 year a great success:
CO-PRESIDENT April Harrison
globalhealthU COORDINATOR Eliza Gentzler
CAMPAIGN COORDINATOR Alex MacLeish
DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS Sarah Wang
SMALL BUSINESS COORDINATOR Cassidy Fox
CO-PRESIDENT Allison Kratka
DIR. OF COMMUNITY BUILDING Jessica Adimora
CAMPAIGN COORDINATOR Sonya Kothadia
DIRECTOR OF FINANCES Tyler Lacy
SUPPORTERS
THANK YOU
ORGANIZATIONS
Duke University SOFC
The Kenan-Biddle Partnership Grant
Shooter's II
INDIVIDUALS
Jason Cross, advisor
Donors: Cary L Harrison
G G Wood Ping Du
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